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1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.
4. A master's degree in library science.
8. An audiotape recording of sound.
11. Any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all.
12. Wild sheep of northern Africa.
13. The United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities.
14. Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.
15. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
16. (usually followed by `of') Released from something onerous (especially an obligation or duty).
17. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
19. On a ship, train, plane or other vehicle.
21. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
23. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
24. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
27. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
31. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
34. A public promotion of some product or service.
35. A small cake leavened with yeast.
37. 1/10 gram.
39. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
44. The United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy.
47. (Babylonian) A demigod or first man.
48. By bad luck.
49. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
51. Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.
52. Female equine animal.
53. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
54. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
55. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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1. The 4th planet from the sun.
2. A detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work.
3. English monk and scholar (672-735).
4. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
5. A unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters.
6. A Bantu language spoken in southern Zaire.
7. In the Arabian Nights a hero who tells of the fantastic adventures he had in his voyages.
8. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
9. An independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia).
10. Scottish chemist noted for his research into the structure of nucleic acids (born in 1907).
18. The cry made by sheep.
20. A Russian river.
22. Type genus of the family Arcidae.
25. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
26. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
28. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
29. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
30. A bachelor's degree in religion.
32. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
33. A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste.
36. Lower in esteem.
37. An adult male person (as opposed to a woman).
38. Offering fun and gaiety.
40. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
41. A unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces.
42. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
43. A quantity of no importance.
45. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
46. Someone who is morally reprehensible.
47. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
50. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
51. Having undesirable or negative qualities.
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